Paedophile Gary Glitter to be paid thousands in royalties after BBC airs repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops

Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter is set to be paid thousands of pounds in royalties after the BBC aired a repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops in 1977.

Viewers were left outraged by TV chiefs' decision to rerun the BBC2 programme featuring the disgraced pop star, 68, on Saturday night.

Many expressed their disgust on social networking sites that Glitter, who has been convicted of possessing child porn and abusing two young girls, would receive money from the airing of the TV programme.

Controversial: Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter, pictured left in 2009, stands to make thousands in royalties after the BBC aired a rerun of him performing on Top of the Pops in 1977 to the outrage of many viewers

Unhappy: Many viewers took to Twitter to voice their disgust at the BBC's decision to rerun a performance by Gary Glitter on Top of the Pops

RedLiverbirdLou wrote on Twitter: 'Why are BBC2 giving Gary Glitter airtime? They should be ashamed! I don't pay my licence to watch Peado's!'

Gary Glitter speaking to the press outside Regents Park in London on his release from prison after being convicted of possessing child pornography

Convicted: Gary Glitter was sentenced in 2006 at Ba Ria-Vung, Vung Tau province, for obscene acts with two young Vietnamese girls

But BBC bosses defended their decision to air the show - stating it would be inappropriate for them to have edited out Glitter's performance.

A spokesman told The Sun: 'It would be inappropriate for the BBC to rewrite history, so the programme was shown in its entirety.'

Glitter was convicted of possession of child pornography in the United Kingdom in 1999, after pleading guilty to 54 offences of making indecent photographs of children.

In 2006 he was jailed in Vietnam for 26 months for abusing two girls aged ten and 11.

There have already been numerous Twitter storms over the disgraced singer - one at the beginning of the year when it appeared he set up a personal account on the social networking site, which was later revealed to be fake.

Glitter had planned a comeback tour in 2001 but is now thought to have recorded a new album in a studio in Cuba inspired by his court case and subsequent prison term.